Origin Of Shampoo

Origin Of Shampoo

While people have been washing their hair for centuries, if not millennia, the usage of commercial shampoo is relatively new. Prehistoric records indicate that humans were using soaproot or even yucca to clean their hair, but shampooing is a whole other process.

1. History

   • To understand the origin of shampoo, we need to first look at the etymology of the word. While there is some argument over the exact origin, most believe it can be traced to the Hindi origins of "champo." This refers to a head massage technique that used oils and was found in India in the 1700s.

     British colonialists took the word and the techniques back to Britain and in the mid-1800s, when shampoo